Melissa Carr

“So many people abuse the system, it’s impossible for the hardworking people to get the help they need,” she’d say. This was the construct she’d built in her head: Most of the beneficiaries of the system were extravagant moochers, but she—despite never having worked in her life—was an obvious exception.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Evolution and the Big Bang became ideologies to confront, not theories to understand.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“In other words, despite all of the environmental pressures from my neighborhood and community, I received a different message at home. And that just might have saved me.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis